Sentence examples for seedling composition from inspiring English sources

The MDS ordination (Figure 4) showed older restored sites were closer in seedling composition to the remnant than the younger age classes were.

For example, after 8 years, restored sites in the lower hills had a seedling composition that was very different to both unrestored and younger restored sites.

We found no significant changes in either seedling richness and diversity or in the seedling composition of plant functional groups in response to mammal exclosure.

To assess the evidence for native species displacement by mahogany, in May 2010 we made additional surveys of tree seedling composition in 26, 5-m radius plots (total area 2041 m2).

The tree seedling bank was greatly reduced and seedling species composition was changed by suppressing Nothofagus betuloides and Nothofagus pumilio, but allowing Nothofagus antarctica.

ANOSIM pairwise comparisons indicated the age classes that were most different in seedling species composition were unrestored and restored (12 14 years) (Table 2).

Restoration plantings developed in a hybrid state towards a benchmark in the lower hills; seedling species composition differed significantly among age classes, increasing in similarity with time since restoration, with some divergence from the target pathway.

To test their effects as exotic engineers on sub-Antarctic vegetation, we quantified beaver impacts on tree canopy cover and seedling abundance and composition, as well as their impacts on herbaceous species richness, abundance and composition on Navarino Island, Cape Horn County, Chile (55°S).

For example, Durham Brooks et al. (2010) used automated analysis of high-resolution images to measure the influence of seed size, seedling age, and media composition on the time course of root gravitropism, a dynamic growth response to a change in orientation with respect to the gravity vector (Blancaflor and Masson 2003; Morita 2010).

Density of emerged seedlings, floristic composition, richness and diversity of species were compared among treatments with Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test, Mann-Whitney test, Fisher's Alpha diversity index and Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS).

Such traits include seedling establishment, plant architecture, seed oil composition, fruit development, nutrient and water use efficiency and disease resistance.